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MORE told reporters on Sunday that he would consider releasing a transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which is said to be the subject of an intelligence community whistleblower complaint. “We’ll make a determination about how to release it, releasing it, saying what we said,” Trump said in Houston, defending his conversation with Zelensky as “perfect.” His remarks came hours after the president suggested that he had discussed Democratic presidential candidate MORE during the call. “The problem is, when you’re sp

“At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior – it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” she tweeted. The freshman Democrat’s comments came after 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tweeted Friday that Congress “had a duty” to start impeachment proceedings against Trump after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.

Unlike blood-sucking vampires that can be tamed with garlic necklaces, holy water and a stake driven through the heart, this THING cannot be stopped. The Leviathan has become a glioblastomic tumor with roots so deep beneath the Potomac that they can never be wrenched out. Its gnarly fingers of government intrusion slither into every thin cranny of American life. (Unless, of course, you are an illegal alien living in the United States illegally, in which case you may carry on unmolested by the Federal Swamp Leviathan.

A report by the New York Times details how Rohingya refugees — the Muslim-minority of Myanmar — are increasingly disappointed by Trump’s reduction of refugee resettlement because they hoped to bring their foreign family members and relatives to the U.S. The Times reports: Another Rohingya refugee, 17-year-old Rohim Mohammod, told the Times he too wants to bring his siblings to the U.S. “I would like to bring my brothers over here,” Mohammod said. After five years of living in the U.S., Rohi

In the most recent Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll out of Iowa, Warren took the lead with 22 percent of Democrat primary voters for the first time. Former Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, fell to second place with 20 percent, while Sen.

DES MOINES — Elizabeth Warren took the lead in Iowa in a new state poll released Saturday, barely dislodging former vice president Joe Biden from the No. 1 spot in the state, putting the two of them in a statistical tie. Warren has the support of 22% of likely participants in the Iowa caucuses, up 7 percentage points from June. Biden landed in second place with 20%, down slightly from June.

Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge on Sunday that he had discussed former Vice President Joe Biden in a July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president that is the subject of a congressional investigation. “The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place,” the president told reporters as he departed the White House on Sunday for events in Texas and Ohio.

When Boston voters go to the polls for Tuesday’s preliminary election, they’ll see a slate of City Council candidates that looks more like a cross-section of the city they’re seeking to represent than at perhaps any other time in history.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats were being weak on President Trump, in the wake of reports that he asked Ukraine’s government to investigate the son of Democratic front-runner Joe Biden. “At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior - it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” she tweeted on Saturday night. “It is one thing for a sitting president to break the law. It’s another to let him,” she said in a series of postings.